Re: message-id formatting

Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:01:36 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.forensics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2007-03-27 Simson Garfinkel wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:
>> On 2007-03-16 [email protected] wrote:
>>> I am trying to find the format of mac.com message-ids. The following
>>> are examples of message-id's received in emails from mac.com.
>>> 
>>> [email protected]
>>> [email protected]
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly. Are you looking
>> for a regular expression to match those message-IDs?
>> 
>>   [0-9A-F]{8}-([0-9A-F]{4}-){3}[0-9A-F]{12}@MAC\.COM
> 
> No. He's looking for a meaning of what they mean.

Well, they're message-IDs, they don't mean anything by themselves.
They're just supposed to be unique identifiers for a given message
(e-mail, in particular).

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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